ROBERT DE TUY. ( Rupertus Abbott of Deutz ):
RUPERTI ABBATIS MONASTERII TUITIENSIS E REGIONE AGRIPPINAE COLONIAE IN RHENI RIPS SITI, ORDINIS S. BENEDICTI, VIRI, & VITAE, SANCTIMONIA, & SACRARUM LITERARUM PERITIA PRAECLARI, COMMENTARIORUM IN EVANGELIUM IOANNIS, LIBRI XIIII.Parisiis, Apud Audoenum Parvum, Via ad divum Jacobum, sub signo Floris Lilii, 1545. Printed by Gulielmus Thibout, 1545. LATIN TEXT. Small 8vo, approximately 170 x 105 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, leaves: (12), 391, last page with colophon, dated August 1545, publisher's device of lions and fleur de lys on title page, some decorated initials, 21 pages of index follow title page, bound in modern quarter calf over cloth sides, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Early line of manuscript in old ink crossed through long ago on title page, tiny piece missing from lower outer corner of title page, 5 mm (¼") hole in blank margin of one index page, occasional light age-browning, small slight mark to some margins, expert repairs to some inner margins, worm track begins in lower margin of fol.180 increasing in size to fol.208, nowhere near text, then decreasing and ending on fol.235, small pale brown damp stain to lower corner of last 13 leaves. A good sturdy copy. First published in Cologne in 1526. The influential Benedictine theologian and writer Robert de Tuy or Rupert of Deutz (circa 1075-1129) was born in Liege in Belgium. He entered the monastery of Saint-Laurent as a young person and received a literary education. He became abbott of Deutz (Cologne) in Germany and died there in 1129. Adams, Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600, Volume II, 939 and 940. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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